I’ve talked about ManageWP quite a bit at our Meetup, but some of their recent changes have made it even more amazing. If you’re not familiar with it, ManageWP is a system to help you manage a bunch of WordPress sites from one place. A “bunch” could be 3, 30 or 300 — it can […]
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Build a WordPress landing page with a Blank Slate
There are times when you might want a page on your site to be completely blank so you can add content the way you want without headers and footers and sidebars and logos getting in your way. If you use WordPress, there is a very simple way to make that happen — the Blank Slate […]
How to choose a WordPress theme
While we build all of our themes from scratch at GreenMellen, using the Genesis framework, there are a lot of situations where you might want to just grab a pre-made theme, add your own logo and colors, and just go with that. If you go down that road, there’s two main types of themes that […]
Uptime monitors with a delay are very useful
A few years ago, I set out to find a good service to monitor uptime on all of the websites we manage (it varies, up to around 150 of them at any given time). It initially came down to two leading contenders: Pingdom – Undoubtedly the best, but it would have cost us around $249/mo. […]
Learn more about Google Analytics with us next week
The year is coming to a close, and we have a couple of great Meetups planned to help wrap it up. Thursday, December 15 – 11:30am On December 15, we’ll be meeting to discuss “Google Analytics — how was your year?”. We’ll take a beginner-level look at Google Analytics, then slowly dig deeper to show […]
List of changed files in WordPress 2.8.5
WordPress 2.8.5 has just been released and (as always) you’re advised to upgrade immediately. I couldn’t find a list of files that were changes between 2.8.4 –> 2.8.5, so I spent some time and figured it out. I hope this is helpful for you: List of changed files in WordPress 2.8.5 (download 2.8.5 here) readme.html […]
Now running WordPress 2.8 RC1
The first (only?) release candidate for WordPress 2.8 is out, and it was another very smooth update. Hopefully they can get the final version released within the next few weeks. Download it yourself, read the release announcement, or see a list of changes since beta 2.
Now running WordPress 2.8 beta 2
The second beta release of WordPress 2.8 has been released, and we’re now running it live on this blog. Nothing huge to announce in this release. You can read about the changes since beta 1, or download beta 2 for yourself. For what it’s worth, it was another silky-smooth upgrade and things seem to be […]
Now running WordPress 2.8 beta 1
The latest beta version of WordPress has just been released, so we figured we’d give a shot in a live environment. No major changes, but a whole bunch of small ones. You can check out the full list here. The upgrade went very quickly and very smoothly, and things seem to be running well. If […]
WordPress iPhone app 1.2 now available
As per the official WordPress for iPhone blog, version 1.2 of their app is now available. Comment moderation, landscape mode, page creation and editing and much more! Get it here.